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Peter O'Toole [1932-2013] Irish

Rank: 101
Actor, Film actor

Peter Seamus O'Toole was a British-Irish stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company before making his film debut in 1959.

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My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.		101
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.	Famous, Morning	102
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.		103
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.		104
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.	Morning	105
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.		106
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.		107
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.	Food	108
A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'		109
I've done everything that's possible to be done.		110
No one ever watched competitive swimming.		111
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.		112
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.		113
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.		114
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.		115
I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.		116
I can't stand light. I hate weather.		117
My plumbing is no one's business but my own.		118
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.	Birthday	119
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.		120
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.		121
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.	Wedding	122
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.		123
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.		124
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.	Sports	125
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.		126
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.		201
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.		202
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.		203
Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.		204
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.		205
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.		206
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.		207
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.		208
Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!		209
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.		210
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.		211
I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.		212
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.		213
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.		214
There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.		215
I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.		216
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.		217
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.		218
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.		219
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.		220
The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.		221
I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.		222
I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.		223
I take whatever good part comes along.		224
Money is always a pressure.		225
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.		226
I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.		301
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.		302
When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.		303
I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.		304
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.		305
I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.		306
I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'		307
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.		308
You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.		309
A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.		310
Public crucifixion is no fun.		311
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.		312
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.		313
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.		314
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.		315
I wouldn't mind being a lord.		316
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.		317
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.		318
I can make the best French toast.		319
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.		320
I love working with the young.		321
My father was a racetrack bookie.		322
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.		323
Every three or four years, I'm hot again.		324
I love London.		325
My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.		326
I quite like being old.		401
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.		402
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.		403
It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.		404
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.		405
It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.		406
I'm not a French singer.		407
I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.		408

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